The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-14
Local and STATE Notes.


Troy, O., has resigned TO take the agency Of the
C., " & G. road at Cairo, Ill
There Is not a Western road of Importance
which does not now have representative of its
freight department located In Pittsburg.
The Indianapolis & VInceanes road now has
nearly 500 coal cars in service. The company
three wears ago owned but thirty five coal cars.
Within the last thirty days some fifty car
loads of Irish potatoes have been shipped to
this market from points on the Minnesota e
Northwestern road.
The fagmen at nine of the principal street
crossings the Union tracks now remain on
duty until p. NJ Their pay has been increased
twenty cents per day.
All the road engines the old L, p. & G.
have been REMEMBERED and lettered Lake Erie &
Western. and the freight and passenger cars are
now being remembered and relettered.
M. E. Ingalls,, president of the c., l., ST. l. &
c., proposes to operate the road on SO per cent.
of the gross earnings this year. The last fiscal
year it WAS operated on So CD per cent.
The Wabash proper has this dis
tributed 900 car loads of gravel ballast on
the road west of Danvie, and has done a good
deal in the way of ballasting with stone.
The Toledo, ST Louis e. Kansas City road
last Tuesday it's first stock train. turning
seventeen car loads of cattle to the Nickel
plate at Continental, the crossing of the two
roads.
The vandalia is fitting up in their shops two
very fine parior cars which are to be put on to
run between Indianapolis and St. Louis. The
chair il of a new pattern, and they cost $40 per
chair.
movement is on foot looking for the build
ing of Belt road Toledo. Within few DAYS
Toledo parties are to be in Indianapolis
anime Belt road and the methods Of
operating it
Robert Garrett. of the Baltimore e. Ohio
road. when he travels is attended with three
servants. Cornelius Vanderbilt. of the New
York Central. has but one, while Jay Gould ap-
parently does OF require any.
The c., FL. 81 d. company has purchased two
DIT 10 10 m serv
on the G., Fl. & l. road hauling their heavy
through passenger trains. 1t is difficult to make
the time with their present light engines.
The work Of widening the track Of the West
Lebanon & Leroy division of the Illinois Cen
trail road. between Rantoul and Leroy, will be-
gin next Monday. When this Improvement Is
made the Illinois Central will have narrow
gauge road in its system.
Four more locomotives will be added to the
power of the Indianapolis g. Vincennes road
next week Eve years ago four engines did the
sient to handle the business. SO much has il in
creased the last three years.
The Bee-line Gazette for October is out, and is
an unusually bright and entertaining number.
The general passenger agent publishes monthly
same ten thousand Of the Gazette; which, beside
ksing GOOD advertising medium contain much
interesting reading matter.
fndianians who for forty years or more
owned stock Of the Baltimore & Ohio road and
BOLD it hsw months for $3.50 share, did
wisely, as 1t is now selling at $105 and will go
time in its history passes dividend
1t is quite evident that the Toledo St. Louis
q Kansas City management does not propose
widen the gauge Of the road west Of Frankfort
until next spring. They are putting in extern
sive transfer tracks at that point, and making
other improvements OF such a character.
larger tonnage of freight is handled as Pitts
burg and it's immediate suburbs annually than
1T any other commercial center in the world.
There are points where a larger revenue, New
York for instance, is derived from the tonnage
handled, but IL Is on a different class of freight
The freight handled at Pittsburg is largely iron
and coal.
The Pennsylvania Company inspection party
yesterday inspected the j.. NJ 6S l., and
pressed themselves as greatly pleased with the
physical condition of the road. The party left
last evening for Chicago. E. W. McKenna and
several other officials of the Chicago. Milwaukee
q st. Paul accompany the Pennsylvania officials
on their inspection trip.
j. Fl. McCampbell. who has been on the j., NJ.
& road for thirty. three years. a large portion
of the time being secretary and treasurer of the
company. but more recently president Of one of
the Louisville banks, was in the city, yesterday,
visiting old-tme friends. and last evening, IN
company with William Jackson, treasurer of the
Union Railway Company. left for Wabash, Ind
The fact that the c.. l.. St. L. g G. shows
slight decrease in earnings the first week of Oc-
tober as compared with the corresponding
period in 1856, should not be taken as an I'M
favorable omen The road carried this year a
larger tonnage than last, but the local business
was carried at lower rates, the decrease in earn
ness. The merchants are reaping the benefit Of
The interstate law.
COMPLAINT is made that freights on the Lake
Erie 81 Western road are delayed a result Of
The practice or too much economy. On some
divisions of the road. Local freight trains are
run only every other day and it sometimes
lakes as LONG to get freight from Indiana polls,
Cleveland or Toledo to point on the Western
division of that road as to get freight from New
York to Indianapolis Such economy is damag-
ing to the business OF the road
There is q general desire among railroad men
that the OF the recent fatal disaster tho
Chicago & Atlantic road should be ferreted out
and tine party through whose neglect care
lessness the accident caused should be
punished. That il was fogy night is not any
excuse, as the train was provided with torpedoes
and the trackmen, switchmen and signal tenders
we'll Why not tine torpedoes used 1t
is intended that they should De on just such
casions.
The Vanderbilt party with Chauncey Depew
at their head. reached Indianapolis yesterday
afternoon. making fine run over the Indianap-
oils e St Louis road. and after a five minutes
tarry. left for Cincinnati over the c.. l., ST. L.
a. G. road. The party looked over the improve
ments the Union Railway Company is making
and expressed themselves as being surprised at
the imposing and substantial character of the
improvements. President DepAw said that the
phrty were pleased to find thu Western properties
they are interested in in such excellent
dition. the l. & st. L. road comparing favorablv
with the best roads Eas, or West. j. ID. LAYING,
president, and Gaylord Beach. general manager
or the Bee line. accompany the party in their in
spection OF the Bee-line system They travel on
q train OF four cars, one dining room and
two private cars.
Under the heading, "His Last Run" the Bee
line Gazette for October, contains this interest
ing "reminiscences: Michael Reddngton the
engineer who recently met with an accident
which not only cost him his own life but that
of his Also was one of the oldest and most
faithful of his following the I. e. ST. L. Ry.
Whenever special run to be made, which |
required A No i man, he the one to be
always found in the cab. We recollect
or two ago Colonel Smith wanted to make fast |
time with excursion into s.. LOUIS He
wired the superintendent, asking that 1T DO made